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France Libre ActualitÉs. No 15 (1944 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This issue of the post-liberation newsreel released in December 1944 shows: 1) French towns devastated during battles and deliberately destroyed by retreating Germans; 2) an indoor rally commemorates the...

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Dylan Thomas: The War Films Anthology (2006)

Subject

Film Studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 106 minutes), £15.99

The world-renowned poet Dylan Thomas made a little-known but valuable contribution to Britain’s war effort scripting powerful propaganda films for the Ministry of Information. This anthology collects...

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War Women of Britain: Women at War 1914-1918 (1991 Video)

Subject

History; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. st. b&w. 14, 10, 12, 10, 3, 2, 2, 4 min., 2004 sale: £18.99

Compilation of eight contemporary films from the archive of the Imperial War Museum, chosen to illustrate aspects of life and society in Britain during the First World War, and especially to show how the...

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ActualitÉs FranÇaises, Les: No 6 (1945 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This issue of the post-liberation newsreel released in February 1945 shows 1) students at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Paris donating blood for wounded soldiers; 2) Tollet, president of the...

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Hans Westmar, Einer von Vielen (1933 Film)

Director

Franz Wenzler

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

This feature film is derived from the book ‘Horst Wessel’ by Hans Heinz Ewers and is typical of early Nazi attempts at entertainment films. It was eventually released under the title HANS WESTMAR because...

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Triumph of the Will (1936 Film, Video)

aka: Triumph des Willens

Director

Leni Riefenstahl

Producer

Walter Groskopf; Walter Traut

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £15.99 inc

The official record of the Nazi Party Congress held in Nuremberg in 1934. After World War 2 the film was banned because of general fears that it might inspire a new Nazi party.* The DVD also includes...

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Next of Kin (1942 Film, Video)

Director

Thorold Dickinson

Producer

Michael Balcon

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The most powerful and realistic of all the ‘careless talk’ films. This feature film tells the story of a raid on a submarine pen on the North West coast of France. A well organised German spy ring, much...

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Executions (1995 Video)

Producer

David Herman; Arun Kumar; David Monaghan

Subject

Law; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 55 min., 1995 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

A controversial video about capital punishment showing actual executions from around the world. Advertised as a polemic against capital punishment, it was banned from two retail chains for being potentially...

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Together (1995 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 44 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A video-based resource pack. The video is a compilation of five films made during World War 2, complete with original commentaries, which demonstrate the contributions to the war effort made by Indians, West...

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Miss Grant Goes to the Door (1940 Film, Video)

Director

Brian Desmond Hurst

Producer

Brian Desmond Hurst

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A dramatised account of a fictional encounter between a German spy and two sisters, Caroline and Edith Grant, designed to show what precautions can be taken to hinder any infiltration or invasion by the...

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